Editing AMX-13 (section)

=== Lebanon ===
The [[Lebanese Armed Forces|Lebanese Army]] was an important user of the AMX-13 in the [[Middle East]], purchasing 42 AMX-13/75s and 22 AMX-13/105s from France in 1972.<ref name="Robinson 2018 p. 185">Robinson, Lau and Gibeau, ''Images of War: The AMX 13 Light Tank, A Complete History – rare photographs from wartime archives'' (2018), p. 185.</ref> During the [[Lebanese Civil War]], the Lebanese AMX-13s saw extensive service in the hands of the regular Lebanese Army and various armed groups in and outside [[Beirut]] between 1975 and 1990, following the collapse of the [[Lebanese Armed Forces]] (LAF) structure in January 1976, and later again in February 1984 in the wake of the [[Mountain War (Lebanon)|Mountain War]]. During this period, most of the regular Army's AMX-13s fell into the hands of the competing Christian-rightist [[Lebanese Front]] and Muslim-leftist [[Lebanese National Movement]] (LNM) militias or were taken way by dissident rebellious Lebanese Army factions. France later delivered an additional 13 AMX-13/90s to the regular Lebanese Army between 1978–1981 and again in 1984.<ref>Kassis, ''Véhicules Militaires au Liban/Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2012), pp. 15; 21–22.</ref><ref>Robinson, Lau and Gibeau, ''Images of War: The AMX 13 Light Tank, A Complete History – rare photographs from wartime archives'' (2018), p. 185, note 49.</ref> Captured AMX-13s were employed by the [[Lebanese Arab Army]] (LAA),{{sfnp|Kassis|2012|page=49}} [[Army of Free Lebanon]] (AFL),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scale35.blogspot.com/2009/05/amx-13-tell-el-zaatar.html|title=AMX-13 light tank of the Army of Free Lebanon at the siege of Tel al-Zaatar, East Beirut, July 1976|date=May 29, 2009}}</ref> [[Kataeb Regulatory Forces]] (KRF), [[Tigers Militia]], [[Lebanese Forces (militia)|Lebanese Forces]] (LF), [[South Lebanon Army]] (SLA), [[Lebanese Resistance Regiments|Amal Movement]], and the [[People's Liberation Army (Lebanon)|People's Liberation Army]] (PLA).<ref>Kassis, ''30 Years of Military Vehicles in Lebanon'' (2003), p. 59.</ref> Nearly all AMX-13s eventually were returned by the demobilized militias to the Lebanese Army between 1990 and 1993. Currently, none of the Lebanese AMX-13 light tanks is believed to remain operational.<ref name="Robinson 2018 p. 185"/>

In July 2018, six of these withdrawn AMX-13 and various other former Lebanese Army military vehicles were dumped in the sea off the coast of [[Sidon]] in southern Lebanon and used as part of an [[artificial reef]].